Theses from 2017
Composting the Garden: Hybrid Geographies of Baton Rouge Urban Gardens, Lauren Hull
Crime analysis in the city of baton rouge and BREC park based on crime location quotient and hotspot method, Anliu Jiang
Ancient Maya Obsidian Trade: Arvin's Landing and Foster Farm, Belize, Kelsey Paige Johnson
Elephants, Local Livelihoods, and Landscape Change in Tsavo, Kenya., Peter Ngugi Kamau
Ports Resilience Index: Participatory Methods to Assess Resilience, Lauren L. Morris
A comparative study of the effects of river flow rates on decomposition, Maddisen Paige Neuman
Feasting in Florida: Evidence of Swift Creek Ceremonial Feasting and Multi-Group Interactions at Byrd Hammock South (8WA30), Wakulla County, FL, Joseph Michael O'Keefe
Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction Using Coral Microatolls (Sp. Siderastrea siderea) From the Gulf of Gonâve, Haiti, Gilman Reno Ouellette Jr.
GIS Analysis of Dvāravatī Dharmacakras and the Rise of Buddhism in Thailand, Areerut Patnukao
Grounds for Displacement: Issues of Migration on Louisiana's Disappearing Coast, Jessica Rose Simms
Vertebral Pathologies and Implications for Economic Lifestyle Changes in Two Prehistoric Skeletal Populations, Alyxandra Leigh Stanco
Pots, Pans, and Politics: Feasting in Early Horizon Nepeña, Peru, Kenneth Edward Sutherland
Language Use in Forensic Settings, Emily Faith Wiegers
Spatio-temporal Modeling of Louisiana Land Subsidence Using High-resolution Geo-spatial Data, Hanyu Xiang
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Tropical Cyclone Strikes in Japan, Jianguo YUAN
Dissertations from 2016
The Body and The Bedroom: Life and Death at the Shrines of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Katie Berchak-Irby
Modeling Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge and Wind Induced Risk along the Bay of Bengal Coastline Using a Statistical Copula, Nazla Bushra
Mobile Homes: Class, Space and Race in Idealized Landscapes of Home, Annemarie Michele Galeucia
Detecting the Spatial Patterns of Blue-green Algae in Harsha Lake using Landsat 8 Imagery, Jing Huang
A Statistical, Data-driven Assessment of Climate Extremes and Trends for the Continental U.S., Xinbo Huang
Temporal Trends of Intraurban Commuting in Baton Rouge 1990-2010, Yujie Hu
Turning the Table Over: Collaboration and Critique at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Erin Colleen Jordan
Ceramic Technology, Production, and Exchange as Seen through Macroscopic Analysis of Pottery Fragments from the Early Horizon Center Caylán, Nepeña Valley, Peru, Michelle Nicole Miller
Effects of Weather Hazards on Traffic Volume: A Case Study Focused on Atlanta, GA, Thana-On Punkasem
Glue Sticks and Gaffs: Disassembling the Drag Queening Body, Ray Siebenkittel
Lightning Flash Rate in the Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela Related to Sea Surface Temperatures and Tropospheric Air Flow, Deirdre Smith
A Climatological Exploration of Land Change and Land Use on Lightning Patterns over Louisiana, Nicholas James Sokol
Tropospheric Ozone Prediction with Land Cover Regression in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Mallory Nance Thomas
Metric Variation in the Human Sacrum: Costal Process Length Among Black and White South Africans, Christy Rose Wayne
Spatio-temporal modeling of Louisiana land subsidence using high resolution geo-spatial data, Hanyu Xiang
Dissertations from 2015
Curated Landscapes: The Evolution of the Postcard Shot, Louise Cheetham
Comparison of Occlusal Area and Postcanine Mesiodistal Length in Old World and New World Monkeys, Ashley Marie Franklin
Shallow Water Depth Inversion Based on Data Mining Models, Shu Gao
Just Throw it in the Pot! The Cultural Geography of Hidden Landscapes and Masked Performances in South Louisiana Gumbo Cooking, Corey David Hotard
Mortuary Practices and Social Identity at Matrix 101, La Leche Valley, Peru, Jenna Renee Hurtubise
Delineating Hospital Service Areas in Florida Based on Patients’ Travel Patterns, Peng Jia
Examining Healthy Food Accessibility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Using A Huff-modified 2SFCA Method, Xuan Kuai
Sexual Dimorphism in the Crania in a Norwegian Sample, Tonje Bakke Noack
Using GPS Tracking and Long-Term Decomposition Studies to Investigate Vulture Scavenging and Flight Patterns in Relation to a Forensic Anthropology Facility in Texas, Lauren Rebecca Pharr
The Edible Landscape: Plant Breeding, Farming, and Sustainbility in Northwest Portugal, Joseph Blanchard Powell
Investigations into Ecogeomorphodynamics of Coastal Embryo Dunes at Padre Island National Seashore, Texas, Katherine Anne Renken
Investigating Prehistoric Exchange in New Zealand: Portable XRF and Spatial Analysis of South Island Obsidian, Herman Nick Robles
Dendrotempestology: Identifying the Statistical Relationship Between Hurricanes and Tree Growth in the Pine Savannas of Coastal Mississippi, Clay Stephens Tucker
An Afro-Brazilian Landscape: African Oil Palms and Socioecological Change in Bahia, Brazil, Case Watkins
Excavations and Interpretation of Two Ancient Maya Salt-Work Mounds, Paynes Creek National Park, Toledo District, Belize, Rachel Mariah Watson
Early Horizon Community Organization and Neighborhoods as Seen Through the Spatial Analysis of Residential Architecture at the Urban Center of Caylán, Peru, Ashley Nichols Whitten
A Study of the Effectiveness of a Common Household Chemical for Maceration, Sara O'Neil Wyatt
Measuring Primary Health Care Accessibility in Mississippi State Using an Extended Kernel Density 2SFCA Method, Lijie Zhang
Theses from 2014
An Analysis of Osteoarthritis of the Upper Limbs in the Tchefuncte Site (16ST1), Mallory Baldridge
Decomposition at three aquatic and terrestrial sites in southern Louisiana, Paul Max Bangs
The Feasibility of Creating a 3D Digital Skeletal Collection for Research Purposes and Museum Use, Karen Leigh Beebe
Bone Modification in Male to Female Transgender Surgeries: Considerations for the Forensic Anthropologist, Shelby Buchanan
Animal scavenging on human skeletal remains in the southwest United States: a preliminary model, Maximilian Hiram Cantu
Caves and Class: Excavations at the Lang-Jourdan House in Mandeville, Louisiana, Matthew James Chouest
Digital Image Analysis of Selected Tchefuncte and Alexander Series Ceramics, Peter Albert Cropley
The spatial-temporal prediction of various crime types in Houston, TX based on hot-spot techniques, Shuzhan Fan
Decomposition and entomological associations of swine in Louisiana micro-environments, Rachael Ann Farris
Place, Race, and the Politics of Identity in the Geography of Garinagu Baündada, Doris Garcia
Electrical resistivity employed at the Livonia Mound site (16PC1), Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, Jennifer Patricia Gardner
Restoring cultural capital through preservation in the Holy Cross Historic District, Jennifer Ann Hay
Assessment of Age at Weaning for Post-Contact Maya of Tipu, Belize, Using Stable Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen Isotope Ratios, Chaney Hiers
The frontal bone as a proxy for sex estimation in humans: a geometric morphometric analysis, Lucy Ann Edwards Hochstein
Disparities in accessibility to pharmacies: a case study in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, Samina Zahid Ikram
Natural Isoscapes of Louisiana: Stable Isotope Analysis of Oxygen, Carbon, and Strontium, Miley Jackson
Quantifying the impact of hurricanes, mid-latitude cyclones and other weather and climate extreme events on the Mississippi-Alabama Barrier Islands using remotely sensed data, Rebekah Danielle Jones
Subjugated Territory: The New Afrikan Independence Movement and the Space of Black Power, Paul Karolczyk
A Comparative Study of Human Decomposition Research Facilities in the United States: The Role of "Body Farms" in Forensic Applications, Nicole Suzanne Klein
Adapting resilience to a new hazard: oil and oysters in coastal Louisiana, Audrey Maass
Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars, John Winsor McEwen
Can you hear the people sing: community theater, play and the middle class, Heather Marie Moats
Touching plantation memories : tourists and docents at the museum, Eddie Arnold Modlin Jr
Object-Based Coastal Morphological Change Analysis Based on LiDAR and Hurricane Events, Bedoor Adel Mohammad
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Selected Birth Defects and Risk Factors in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, Aimee H. Moles
A Data-Driven Storm Surge Analysis for the U.S. Gulf Coast, Harold Francis Needham
Climate extremes in the Southeast United States : variability, spatial classification, and related planning, Emily J. Powell
Investigation of factors controlling the dynamics of beach surface moisture content, Phillip P. Schmutz
Inferences of Subsistence Activities Using Musculoskeletal Stress Markers of Humerii from Two Louisiana Archaeological Populations, Brian M. Thibodeaux
Early Horizon Defensive Structures and the Role of Warfare in the Lower Nepeña Valley, Peru, James Steven Treloar
Production, Discard, and Urban Life at the Early Horizon Center of Caylán, Coastal Peru, Jacob Pate Warner
Mental Mapping the Transformation of Social Space in Rio's Oldest Favela: Morro da Providência, Jamie Lauren Worms
Built Environment and Risk of Obesity in the United States: A Multilevel Modeling Approach, Yanqing Xu
Theses from 2013
A Hybrid Procedure for Classifying Synoptic Weather Types for Louisiana with an Application to Precipitation Variability, Amanda Michelle Billiot
Beach-dune interactions and a new cycle of foredune evolution, Gulf County, Florida, Michael Bitton
Sites of indigenous language practice : geography of American Indian language policy, Thomas Pierre-Yves Brasdefer
Uncovering nodes in the transnational social networks of Hispanic workers, James Powell Chaney
Shifting place identities in a post-conflict society : irony and multiculturality in Quemoy, Taiwan, Yi-Chia Chen
Three from the bottom : examining racial and ethnic identity among Italian Americans in Bossier City, Jamie Rene Digilormo
Investigations of the initiation of motion in aeolian transport, Brandon L. Edwards
Secular change in the rate of dental impaction, Kelly Heim
The Blessing of the Fleet : heritage and identity in three Gulf Coast communities, Audriana Hubbard
Optimizing peak gust and maximum sustained wind speed estimates from mid-latitude wave cyclones, Timothy Andrew Joyner
Backpacker selves in a hostel: discourse, identity, and existential authenticity, Emley Kerry
On human biological diversity : variation in sexual dimorphism of the skull between African-Americans and European-Americans, Amanda Grace Kittoe
Palate shape and depth : a shape matching and machine learning method for assessment of ancestry from skeletal remains, Christopher Allan Maier
Emergent irrigation agriculture and settlement patterns in the lower Nepeña Valley, north-central coast of Peru, Caitlyn Yoshiko McNabb
All-women's flat track roller derby : gender, psychoanalysis, and meaning, Matthew Newsom